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… American Utopia: The Architecture and History of the Suburb … inquiry: How is the architectural evolution of the American home related to broader themes of modern U.S. …
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… Map for US Presidents Election, 1976. Wikimedia Commons "America's Constitutional system aims not merely for majority … Jackson, December 8, 1829, first Annual Message to Congress Americans elect a president through the state-by-state …
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… look at maps that record the early exploration of the American West, noting how mapmakers kept alive hopes of … different eras, then tracing the process of mapping the American West. View the above PBS News clip on how …
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… Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution yes Photo caption Artist rendering of … Paul Revere's ride is the most famous event of its kind in American history. But other Americans made similar rides …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … But Washington refused any such reward. According to America's First Hero on the EDSITEment resource The American …
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… Lives Before the Civil War yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … (March 4, 1851). For background information, search American Memory for "Letter, Elizabeth Blackwell to …
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… learn about these failed amendments to understand not only America's legal and political history but also the ongoing efforts to reform the Constitution and America’s political system. Funded in part by the National …
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… categories of individuals (people living at the time of the American Revolution, immigrants, and people from your home … the criteria for inclusion in the Library of Congress's America's Library's Meet Amazing Americans . If you complete …
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… WWI Photoessay from the EDSITEment-reviewed website Modern American Poetry to gain a general sense of the Great War. … Great " (1918), via the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets site. Wilfred Owen's " Dulce et Decorum Est … dugout ... Gradually imperceptibly, the black & white pictures of the night were coloured by the sun. A dark …
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… common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture of real life, with all the little wheels and … Thomas Paine, who had returned to England after the American Revolution, published The Rights of Man (1791). … century. Class is a concept that is alien to most Americans, even though the term is used in a general way to …
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… responsible for initiating a number of programs that helped America gain a world position. —John Hanson Statue on the … everything about the Presidency was central to the idea of America that was a work-in-progress when the nation was …
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… We Must Not Be Enemies Student Activity Lincoln on the American Union: A Word Fitly Spoken Lesson Plan “From Time … What Should a President do? Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Featured Image Photo caption …
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… Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the … as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this … be integrated across K-12 humanities classrooms. Manjiro: America’s "First Ambassador" to Japan The year was 1841. …
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… How did these New England settlers interact with the Native Americans, and how can we gain information about those … New England migrants colonized their region of North America by establishing towns. The Puritans embarked upon …
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… table, including Germans, French, Spaniards, Native Americans, Irish, and a range of other Europeans amicably … laws, gender and immigration, and migration within the Americas. Each lesson plan provides a discussion, teaching …
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… States into the war." —The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2. To make the world “safe for democracy”? … Wilson's War Message (April 4, 1917) "To what extent was America's war a war for business? Did Woodrow Wilson lead …
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… everything about the Presidency was central to the idea of America that was a work-in-progress when the nation was … August 22, 1781 on the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory .) On November 5, 1781, less than three …
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… the Library of Southern Literature (via Documenting the American South) Realism The websites used in Lesson 2 … The Awakening . Practitioners of a realist style in the American tradition include William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, …
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… Today: From "New" to You! Lesson Plan The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry Lesson Plan … food made attending the exposition too expensive for most Americans. The average worker earned $1 to $1.50 per day, …
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… Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union yes Photo caption Photo of Lincoln at … and practices of self-government for most, if not all, of America's inhabitants. But once cotton became "king" as the …
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… – a period intertwined with the Great Migration, when Black Americans fled Jim Crow oppression in the South for better … of Africans being forcibly enslaved to be taken to the Americas. Shackled figures walk toward slave ships on the …
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… yes Photo caption Still from the documentary “Rita Dove: An American Poet” Wikimedia Commons The selections within this … of Achilles” The Poem About the Poet from the Academy of American Poets Audio “The Shield of Achilles ” from the …
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… Mexico, is legendary. Lauded as the first great Latin American poet, she was published in both the New and the Old … but also an important figure in the cultural history of the Americas as a defender of women’s rights in Chile. More of …
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… caption President Woodrow Wilson, 1912. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … use of force to accomplish idealistic goals, the idea of America. Understanding the debate over the League and the …
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… Lesson 3: African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps yes Photo caption African American civilian conservation corps workers. Wikimedia …
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… of individuals and undercut the nation's economy. Older Americans as a group were particularly affected by this … health meant people were living longer, yet many elderly Americans faced age discrimination that made it difficult to … to an industrial economy. The EDSITEment-reviewed America's Library site created by the Library of Congress …
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… Lesson 2: Religion and the Argument for American Independence yes Photo caption Pastor Jonathan … Congress In 1775 the English political philosopher and pro-American Member of Parliament Edmund Burke said, "The …
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… to drink lizard broth and eat spider eggs from a Native American woman who cared for them.) Lesson Activities … and politics have been famously intertwined in Latin American letters. Select one of the following short stories …
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… Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused" yes Photo caption African American men and women hoe and plow the earth while others …
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… wisdom can form for collecting the united sense of your American people, we are convinced, your Majesty would … petition (and perhaps his remarks about it) became known in America, according to the Journals of the Continental …